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Disk boot failure

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/disk-boot-failure.88837/

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shivg33k Original post #1
May 26, 2008 at 12:08 AM
My friend for some reason had disconnected his IDE drive from his PC for an hour when he tried to reconnect the same it gave a disk boot error, it is the only drive connected to the PC (Primary master) other is his DVD ROM. He has some important files in his c:\ drive so i don't want to format his PC. we have tried disconnecting and reconnecting the IDE cable several times, same error comes,previously it was working fine :x
shift
shift #2
May 26, 2008 at 7:34 AM
look in the bios if the board detect the HDD

if not, then
# try connecting to Primary Master
# check your IDE cabe and power
ayush_chh
ayush_chh #3
May 26, 2008 at 8:33 PM
try connecting only the HDD and remove the DVD drive.......check if HDD is getting detected